Seedream 5.0 Lite
Seedream 5.0 Lite is the lightweight variant of ByteDance's next-generation Seedream 5 image model, tuned for fast generation at lower cost while preserving the Seedream line's photorealism and bilingual prompt handling. Use it for high-throughput creative pipelines, prototyping, and applications where speed and unit economics matter more than maximum fidelity.
Pricing
Input
$0.035 / image
Output
—
Pay only for what you use. No subscriptions, no minimums.
Specs
- Context
- —
- Max output
- —
- Latency
- Fast
- Category
- Image
- Arabic
- Partial
Constraints & limits
Pixel area
3.69M – 10.4M px
Output
Presigned URLs (~24h TTL)
The gateway auto-clamps requests to the model's limits where possible.
Quick start
This sample hits the image generation endpoint. Change base_url and your key, then run it.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key="tl-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
base_url="https://api.thalam.ai/v1",
)
response = client.images.generate(
model="bytedance/seedream-5.0-lite",
prompt="A futuristic city skyline at sunset.",
size="1024x1024",
n=1,
)
print(response.data[0].url)Similar models
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